do you have any small tips to share?

[MECH8T7]

If you are carrying a camera bag or knapsack / messenger bag / hip pack in the parks, put a note in it that identifies where you are staying for the week.

I don't normally do this when we are on vaction but, for some reason did this for our recent WDW. Wouldn't you know it, I left my camera bag (expensive SLR) and hip pack on a chair at the Mara Restaurant in AKL. Before I realized that I had left it behind, I got a call to AKL room from AKL lost and found telling me that someone had turned in my stuff. (The note actually said that we were staying at the Poly -- and we were staying at the Poly earlier in the week -- but he thought to check the AKL first).

My experience is that most people usually have tags that have their name, home address, and telephone number. That will probably get you a phone call on your answering machine at home that they've got your stuff but may require some detective work for anyone to locate you in the WDW area unless they know where you are staying.

 

[Grumpy_Disney_Dad]

1 tip I always use is that instead of putting my home address on my luggage tags, I put my business address on them . That way if somethiing does happen to them , i still get them back without giving any wouldbe theives the address to an un attended house

 

[erinz]

Great ideas!! I like this post!

 

[apcall]

oh I forgot one......Usually when my daughters and I go to WDW, my x-wfie and her husband come too and we stay in connecting rooms (so the kids can go back and forth at will without going in the hall). Anyways my last trip (Oct 04) I was booking the 2 rooms when I realized that if I bought one annual pass (which wasn't much more that an ultimate hopper for 10 days - length of our trip) we would get a discount on BOTH rooms. I forgot what the savings was but I remember it being somewhere in the lows 100s (and this is after making up the difference between the hopper and the annual). I can't remember because while my TA and I were arranging this, a new offer came out (stay on site for 7 days or more and get 2 days free...PERFECT 10 days for the price of 8).....Now I am not sure how this works, if at all, with the new pricing system....but someone should look into it....good luck

 

[PocahontasLookALike]

Good tips!

 

[iLoveEeyore2]

If you are carrying a camera bag or knapsack / messenger bag / hip pack in the parks, put a note in it that identifies where you are staying for the week.

I don't normally do this when we are on vaction but, for some reason did this for our recent WDW. Wouldn't you know it, I left my camera bag (expensive SLR) and hip pack on a chair at the Mara Restaurant in AKL. Before I realized that I had left it behind, I got a call to AKL room from AKL lost and found telling me that someone had turned in my stuff. (The note actually said that we were staying at the Poly -- and we were staying at the Poly earlier in the week -- but he thought to check the AKL first).

My experience is that most people usually have tags that have their name, home address, and telephone number. That will probably get you a phone call on your answering machine at home that they've got your stuff but may require some detective work for anyone to locate you in the WDW area unless they know where you are staying.

DD lost her backpack at AK. We would call each day to find out if anyone had found it. (All the items found in the park go to Guest Services at the park and then on to one central "Lost and Found" location at TTC.) As of the day we left, it was still missing. About a week or so after we got home it arrived in the mail!!!! We thought for sure we would never see it again!